The New History Author:Alun Munslow This is a deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past, that is that history will never be the same again - neither will the past. This book provides an evaluation and overview of the state of history as it is imagined, conceptualized and practiced today. Written by one of the leading 'postmodern historians'... more » working today, and with a highly unusual approach, this is the first book to bring the philosophy of history into everyday considerations of historical thinking and practice. Alun Munslow, taking an explicitly postmodernist position opposed to empiricism, writes that the past and history are in fact different. For those interested in historiography« less